Time Series DB's: InfluxDB and the TICK stack (Paul Dix)
Download MP3The InfluxDB founder's take on Time Series DB's.
Listen to HashiCast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/hashicast/episode-5-paul-dix-influxdb-PGC9o3DmNyc/ (12 mins in)
Benefits of TS DBs:
Benefits of TS DBs:
- Compression for timestamps
- Write throughput because append-only writes
- Downsampling high precision for 7 days, then 10min summarizations for 3 months, then 1hr summaries
- Query patterns - Instead of SQL, Influx uses InfluxQL
More on the TICK stack: https://docs.influxdata.com/
